Carina Solmirano
Project Lead, Arms Trade Treaty Monitor, Control Arms
twitter: @csolmirano LinkedIn
email: carina [dot] solmirano [at] controlarms [dot] org
Project Lead, Arms Trade Treaty Monitor, Control Arms
twitter: @csolmirano LinkedIn
email: carina [dot] solmirano [at] controlarms [dot] org
Arms Trade Treaty | Small arms and light weapons (SALW) | global trade data/trends | Latin America
Carina Solmirano is the Project Lead of the Arms Trade Treaty Monitor, an independent research project of Control Arms. Previously, she was a government official at the Ministry of National Security (2016-2019), senior consultant on citizen security at the Inter-American Development Bank (2014-2016) and senior researcher at the Military Expenditure and Arms Production Programme in SIPRI (2009-2014). Solmirano has almost 20 years of experience on defense and international security issues, having also worked at the Organization of American States, the Argentine Senate, and the NGO Association for Public Policies.
Solmirano has taught post-graduate courses on conflict and international cooperation (Universidad de San Andres), international relations (University of Denver), transnational organized crime (University of Denver), and undergraduate courses on international security (Universidad de Buenos Aires) and political theory (Universidad de Buenos Aires). In 2014 and 2020, she was recognized by the United Nations Regional Center for Peace, Disarmament and Development in Latin America and the Caribbean (UNLIREC) for her contributions to international peace and security in disarmament and nonproliferation.
She holds an MA in International Security from the Josef Korbel School of International Studies (University of Denver) and a BA in Political Science from Universidad de Buenos Aires (Argentina).
Recent publications:
Carina Solmirano is the Project Lead of the Arms Trade Treaty Monitor, an independent research project of Control Arms. Previously, she was a government official at the Ministry of National Security (2016-2019), senior consultant on citizen security at the Inter-American Development Bank (2014-2016) and senior researcher at the Military Expenditure and Arms Production Programme in SIPRI (2009-2014). Solmirano has almost 20 years of experience on defense and international security issues, having also worked at the Organization of American States, the Argentine Senate, and the NGO Association for Public Policies.
Solmirano has taught post-graduate courses on conflict and international cooperation (Universidad de San Andres), international relations (University of Denver), transnational organized crime (University of Denver), and undergraduate courses on international security (Universidad de Buenos Aires) and political theory (Universidad de Buenos Aires). In 2014 and 2020, she was recognized by the United Nations Regional Center for Peace, Disarmament and Development in Latin America and the Caribbean (UNLIREC) for her contributions to international peace and security in disarmament and nonproliferation.
She holds an MA in International Security from the Josef Korbel School of International Studies (University of Denver) and a BA in Political Science from Universidad de Buenos Aires (Argentina).
Recent publications:
- "ATT Monitor 2023 Report," Control Arms Secretariat, New York, 2023, editor.
- “Behind a Rise in Latin America’s Violent Crime: A Deadly Flow of Illegal Guns,” Americas Quarterly, May 15, 2023.
- “Tráfico y desvío de armas de fuego en México y su impacto en la violencia contra las mujeres: evidencias y propuestas para abordarla,” Boletin Amassuru, Nov. 2022, with Katherine Aguirre.
- “ATT Monitor 2022 Report,” Control Arms Secretariat, 2022, co-editor.